OBJECT

Sections-segment keyword that specifies a function. Multiple OBJECT keywords control the order of functions in the output file.

  OBJECT (function, filename | *) 

function

Represents the mangled function name (for C language, the used mangling is prefixing the function name with one ‘_’ character)

filename

Represents the source file or object file name where the function should be taken from. The actual search is performed through the object files (the input of the linker) – the back-mapping from object files to source files is performed by the linker in order to satisfy some constructions in the linker command file.

*

Represents all object files, meaning that the function will be searched through all the object files provided to the linker

If an OBJECT keyword tells the linker to write an object to the output file, the linker does not write the same object again, in response to either the GROUP keyword or the '*' wildcard character.